Guizhou national wedding custom museum

Guizhou national wedding custom museum

Guizhou national wedding custom museum opened in October 1989. It is located in Xingyi Liu's manor, Xiawutun street, Xingyi City, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province.

architectural composition

The whole estate covers an area of 36000 square meters, and the wedding custom museum accounts for one fifth. It is the only Museum of minority marriage customs in China. "Liu's Manor" is the largest "Tunpu" type landlord and warlord building complex in China. It is now a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level. It was first built in the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of this century, a large-scale building group with Chinese and Western walls was formed. The main buildings are mostly of wood structure. The roof is of suspended hill type, veranda type and hard hill type. The roof truss is of bucket type and beam type. The column base is more than 0.7 meters high.

Development history

The museum's "Guizhou minority wedding customs Exhibition" consists of six parts, including 381 cultural relics and 129 pictures, supplemented by wedding dress models, love song recordings and wedding videos. The combination of knowledge and interest, teaching and entertainment, and good response from the audience. The museum now has 681 collections in the fields of media, love keepsake, wedding supplies, wedding dress, bridal chamber facilities, fertility appliances, etc. Among them, the wedding shrine of the Buyi people in the Qing Dynasty, the silver medal of the Buyi people in the Qing Dynasty, the Miao people's Bamboo carving engagement in the Qing Dynasty, the Miao people's flower shooting back card, the Miao people's wedding dress with chicken feather, and the Miao people's "marriage promotion" coir raincoat are the most distinctive.

There are two glass boxes in the exhibition hall, in which there are two wax statues of girls dressed in national costumes. Surprisingly, there are a lot of change in the two glass boxes. According to the staff of the museum, there are small openings on the glass boxes for ventilation of portraits. However, some visitors mistook them as "merit boxes" and poured small change into the glass boxes from the "vent" to accumulate happiness for themselves. However, in addition to the small ventilation openings, the glass box is tightly sealed. Now it is not easy to clean up the change in the glass box.

In fact, the traditional marriage customs in Guizhou Province can be said to be in various forms, and the ways of showing love of the same nationality are different due to different regions or branches. Such as national festivals, gatherings and excursions in leisure time are places and opportunities for young men and women to make friends and choose spouses. The "flower belt" in Lusheng festival of Miao nationality is a way of courtship for young men of Miao Nationality in the east of Guizhou Province; the girls of Miao Nationality in Qiannan area will put one end of their belt on their favorite young men, which is called "morning glory"; while the young men and women of Buyi Nationality mainly "express their feelings with songs", and the content of love songs is very rich, including initial songs, Four Seasons songs, bitter love songs, etc.

Address: next to Xiawutun Street office, Manor Road, Xingyi City, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China

Longitude: 104.895846

Latitude: 25.064383

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